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Sunday, January 22, 2012

momento for project life plus a few layouts

First, I want to update you on how I've been keeping up with my photos and notes for project life.

In this post I showed you how I was using my iphone notes app to keep up with with everything. It worked great and it's free, but since then I discovered another app that I love called momento. You can read more about it here.

I had to think about it for a minute or two because it's $2.99. Funny how that seems like so much money when we're talking apps! It was worth it though. Momento is perfect for keeping track of my life without much effort on my part. It uses your twitter, facebook and instagram feeds to update each day on the calendar with your goings on. If you want to remember something that you didn't share through social media, you can add your own 'moment' manually and you can even include a photo. If I know I'm going to be using a pic from my big camera I usually just add a note to remind myself.

Here are just a few screenshots of the app in action. The orange dots represent a moment that I added manually. On the calenday view, the blue dots were added automatically from twitter or instagram. When you click on days, you get a list with a short recap. Then you can click on each day to see the details.

My project life album for 2011 is complete and that feels so good! I still have quite a few layouts I haven't shared with you.

In November I used one of the new inserts (design G) for the first time. It's great for when you have a week with a few extra photos you want to share like I had for our weekend away at Thanksgiving. I included a 4x6 document that I printed on card stock. It included some text and a red border, plus I adhered a small group photo to it.

There was no shortage of happenings for the busy month of December. I loved it, but I'm also kind of glad things have slowed down and are back to normal.

I used the number stickers on a journaling card this week. I love doing this when I don't have much to say and it clears up space for extra photos in the journaling card slots.

And here's the busy week before Christmas. My favorite space this week shows Alec and Mason when they got home from their first ever trip to the grocery store for me. Very fun memory!

I don't always necessarily use a pic that was taken on the 'right' day. I wanted to document that I made my last trip to the mall on Tuesday and I was done with Christmas shopping. I didn't take any pics that day so I used a pic of the decorations at the mall from a few weeks prior.

For the journaling to go along with the two instagram pics on the bottom left, I cut off part of one of the double journaling cards included in the kit and adhered it and the two pics to cardstock.

I am so grateful to Becky Higgins for coming up with the project life system. I am not a very good scrapper so I'm thrilled that I've been able to document two years of our lives and start on a third in this fabulous way!

That app sounds like a must-have for me! I have so much blog jealousy over everyone's project life entries, but I know me and my schedule and my scatteredness and know it's not the project for me, but something that integrates everything I put out there anyway? That works for someone like me.

Hi. I was thinking about buying Momento but also hesitated because of the 'high' price! But, you have convinced me!! Does the app also include your pins on Pinterest? Love your wonderful pages!! I love how you used the number stickers and the large journaling cards in the 4x6 pages! Have a great Sunday!!

This is so nice! I have to do this. I am getting better about printing photos but not putting them in a book to share. You have inspired me though this. Now tell us about Pin it... I don't get and I see the logo on most blogs.

I love when you share your pages with us! I really love the simplicity of Project Life and am thinking about using it for more than my P365. I have several years of scrapbooking to get "caught up" on and think this might just be the way to do it. Put in some photos, highlight a few things per week/month, and move on. :)

Just found your site and it's absolutely wonderful. Looking forward to coming back and checking out new photos, picking up tips, and I'll be letting my readers know as well by posting your button on my site!

Okay, I bought Momento a long time ago and I posted "a moment" on it just to set a goal of using it on a everyday occurance. I do have a question; how did you get your pinterest feed to show up? I dont understand how you added it to your day/feed ... curious! I love your simplicity of your blog; its so inspiring!

I actually read this post a while back, just didn't get a chance to comment. You know... comment to tell you I am crazy jealous because that app looks amazing and they don't have it for android! :( hehe